Hollywood

It was a long way to go for a film screening – around 5,000 miles from the UK to Los Angeles – but the opportunity to see Tremors on the big screen and finally meet numerous cast and crew members in person on Thursday 26 March was hard to turn down.

The ArcLight on Sunset Boulevard was the location for Creature Features and Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine’s 25th anniversary celebration, partly designed to celebrate the launch of the latter’s latest issue featuring a Tremors retrospective by the event’s host, David Weiner.

The organisers managed to pull together an amazing line-up of guests for the night, announcing that this was the biggest panel of attendees they’d ever gathered for an event. In fact there were so many cast and crew there that the Q&A had to be split into two, with one before a screening of the film and one after.

David Weiner accurately described the event as resembling a high school reunion, before inviting Wilson to explain how the idea for Tremors came about, allowing him to tell the story of how he was atop a boulder in the desert when he wondered what might happen if he couldn’t get down due to their being something under the sand.